Tiny drug-delivering capsules could sustain transplanted insulin-producing cells

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A drug-carrying microsphere within a cell-bearing microcapsule could be the key to transplanting insulin-secreting pig pancreas cells into human patients whose own cells have been destroyed by type I diabetes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news